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    The five aggregates are the primary categories for examining the phenomenal structure of sentient beings.

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    • 1.The five aggregates serve as a phenomenological scheme for examining the nature of human experience.
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    • 2.Human beings construct conceptions of the self based upon different existential experiences within the framework of the five aggregates.
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    • 3.The sense of self develops through the view that objectifies the five aggregates as transient composites (satkāyadṛṣṭi).
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa identifies dharmas—not aggregates—as the primary analytical units of sentient experience.
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    • 2.The five aggregates are derivative groupings of dharmas, making dharmas the more fundamental phenomenal categories.
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    • 3.A classificatory scheme built on derivative categories cannot itself be primary without circularity in the ontological analysis.
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    • 1.Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā argues that positing any fixed categorical scheme as 'primary' reinstates the essentialism the aggregates were meant to dissolve.
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    • 2.If the aggregates are conventionally designated and empty of intrinsic nature, they cannot bear the ontological weight of being a primary explanatory framework.
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    Suffice it here to highlight the important relation that exists between the aggregates and the notion of self. According to Candrakīrti, the five aggregates are primary categories upon which we will draw to examine the phenomenal structure of sentient beings, because of the following reasons: because (1) it serves as a phenomenological scheme for examining the nature of human experience, (2) the way in which human beings construct conceptions of the self is based upon different existential exper
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    Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa identifies dharmas—not aggregates—as the primary ana...
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